Blog by Tag: English

The Y5 and Y3 children were lucky enough to work with a play director in conjunction with Hull Truck Theatre and the Royal Shakespeare Company.  We workshopped sections from Much Ado About Nothing - one of Shakespeare's plays - and came up with scenesin groups.  We teamed up with Y3 and showcased…

The Y5 children have had a wonderful morning today in our drama workshop with a professional creative director working with us through the Royal Shakespeare Company and Hull Truck Theatre.  We began our morning with lots of warm-up games for our voices.  We worked on freeze frames of various…

To celebrate British Science Week, we have been investigating materials. We pretended to be the Big Bad Wolf to test the strength of different materials. We made predictions about which we thought would be the strongest materials. We then tried to blow away bricks, pom poms, chocolate, paper, wood…

We have enjoyed learning about Traditional Tales. This week we have been reading Goldilocks and the Three Bears. The children have enjoyed acting out the story, making bears out of play dough, trying porridge and writing an apology letter to the bears from Goldilocks.

We loved World Book Day! We all came dressed up as our favourite book character and shared our books with the rest of the class. We’ve also been learning all about traditional tales and acting them out with role play props.  

We have had such a brilliant World Book Day! We have loved dressing up, listening to different fairytales and making bookmarks. 

We’ve had so much fun celebrating Pancake Day today! We enjoyed reading the story Mr Wolf’s Pancakes and spotted some characters from the fairytales we have been reading. We helped Mr Wolf to write his shopping list and then followed the recipe to make our own pancakes. We chose our own toppings…

In Year 3/4 we have been learning about Tudor explorers. The children used what they had learnt in class as well as their own research to create fact files about different Tudor explorers.

In Y5/6, we have been studying and writing formal persuasive letters.  Today, we imagined KS2 SATs were going to be abolished.  As a class, we discuss whether we thought that children should have to do SATs or not.  At the end of our discussion, we had a vote and the class decided that KS2…

We watched a video about a little girl called Sophia who celebrated the Jewish festival of Hanukkah with her family. We learnt all about the traditions including decorations, candles, songs, games, prayers and food. We followed a recipe for latke (potato pancakes) and made them. The Jewish people…

This week in our English lessons we have begun a new unit to create a setting description about an air raid during WW2.  This week, we have watched a video called 'London Can Take It' and started to collect vocabulary and descriptive phrases we can use in our writing.  We have created a word…

We’ve had such a busy few days in reception. We had lots of fun in our phonics lessons; improving our letter formation in different media, working on hearing initial sounds and reading words to find matching pairs. In maths, we have been comparing objects, quantities, heights and lengths. We have…